Adding RSS Feed
Learn how we can add an RSS feed to our Astro site.
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RSS feeds are a way to share information with users about each piece of content available on a website. Subscribing to RSS feeds allows users to keep up with newly published content, never missing out on new updates. RSS feeds usually include a title, a summary, a publication date, and a link to the content. Other information can also be included, such as the name of the author or a category tag. In this lesson, we’ll take a quick look at how we can add an RSS feed to our Astro project, using Astro’s built-in RSS feed generation tool.
Adding RSS feed
To add an RSS feed to Astro, we need to create a new route in our pages folder with the xml.js extension. In the following code widget, we have a file inside the pages folder called rss.xml.js, which is currently empty:
---
title: "Latest Astro Post Title"
description: "Description for the post"
publishDate: "2023.06.19"
heroImage: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1581500274180-6331eea8b184?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8OHx8YXN0cm98ZW58MHx8MHx8fDA%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1200&q=60"
excerpt: "Excerpt from a recommended article. Content is trimmed to a maximum of 150 characters for brevity. If the content exceeds the character limit, three dots will be displayed using JavaScript's `substring` method."
faq:
- id: 1
question: "Post with FAQ"
answer: "FAQ answer"
open: true
- id: 2
question: "FAQ 2nd Question"
answer: "Answer to 2nd FAQ"
---
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To create the RSS feed, we need to export a get function from the file that returns an rss function imported from ...